Behavioural Processes

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Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	63
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	45
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	32
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	32
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	27
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	24
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	23
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	20
Learning about reward identities and time	20
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	19
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	17
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	16
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	16
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	15
Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	15
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	15
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	15
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	15
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	15
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	14
A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	14
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	13
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	13
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	12
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	12

Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	12
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	11
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	11
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	11
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	11
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	10
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	10
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	10
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	10
Behavioural plasticity in a solitary foraging ant: Effect of experience and food distribution	10
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	9
Resurgence increases with repetition	8
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	8
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	8
Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	8
Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	8
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	8
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	8
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	8
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	8
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	8
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	8
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	8
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	7
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	7
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Plasticity in sex roles and female competition in Neotropical dung roller beetles	7
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	7
Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	7
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
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Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6

Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
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Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	6
Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
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Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)	6
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Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	5
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	5
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	5
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	5
Learning to stop responding	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
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Chronic social defeat stress induces context avoidance in mice	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
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Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
Witnessing others interact with a novel object has sex- and size-specific effects on neophilia in mosquitofish	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	4
The role of stimulus combinations in the repeated assessment of resurgence	3
Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?	3
Using social network analysis to confirm the ‘gambit of the group’ hypothesis for a small cetacean	3
Streamlining boldness measurement in fish: A practical approach to field studies	3
The consistency of exploration behaviours across life stages in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	3
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Regulation of sex differences in risk-based decision making by gonadal hormones: Insights from rodent models	3
Search image formation for spider prey in a mud dauber wasp.	3
The effectiveness of Go/Nogo dual-task is modulated by SOA and Go/Nogo ratio	3
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes	3
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	3
SQAB 2022: New directions in learning research	3
Playing or fighting? Home cage dynamics in crowding or social instability paradigms contribute to stress and reproductive impairments in adult female Wistar rats	3
Reproductive advantage of the winners of male-male competition in Drosophila prolongata	3
A mixed-species shoal including fewer heterospecifics is preferred by jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus juveniles	3
Assessment of ultrasonic vocalization-mediated communication deficits in AD rats: A social learning paradigm using conspecific drinking behavior	3
A standardised ethogram for the Psittaciformes	3

Stress-related impairment of fear memory acquisition and disruption of risk assessment behavior in female but not in male mice	3
Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs	3
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The ‘less-is-better’ effect in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.): Some data and a contrast-like hypothesis	3
Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year	3
Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	3
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time	3
Sexual stimulation of captive Iberian ibex bucks (Capra pyrenaica): Effect of male social rank on the response to estrous females	3
Activity behavior of goitered gazelles in an arid environment	3
An investigation of turn alternation in two species of terrestrial isopods: Porcellio spinicornis and Trachelipus rathkii	3
3D-printed operant chambers for rats: Design, assembly, and innovations	3
Previous experience alters individual vulnerability to angling of crucian carp (Carassius auratus)	3
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Boldness and learning in an active foraging lizard	3
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Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future	3
An introduction to “discrete choice experiments” for behavior analysts	3
Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	3
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Effects of delay sequence in a delay discounting task	3
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	3
Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	3
Behavioural responses to separation from human companion in the domestic cat: A survey-based study	3
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Almost there: Learning to navigate approximately with a grid map	3
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Motivating operations as contexts for operant discrimination training and testing	3
Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans	2
Corrigendum to “Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals” [Behav. Proc. 231, September 2025, 105244]	2
Horses can learn to identify joy and sadness against other basic emotions from human facial expressions	2
Punishment-induced resurgence	2
Disentangling the “many-eyes”, “dilution effect”, “selfish herd”, and “distracted prey” hypotheses in shaping alert and flight initiation distance in a colonial seabird	2
Measuring locomotor strategies of freely moving previsual rat pups	2
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Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents	2
Non-masking noise suppresses bird song	2
Modeling relational responding with artificial neural networks	2
Further observations on the reinforcing value of sucrose solutions: Interaction between quantity and concentration	2
ABA and AAB renewal of alcohol seeking in rats are reduced by exposure to beer before extinction	2
A psychological model of the cognitive processes regulating exploratory behavior in animals	2
First insights into social behavioral patterns between pairs of bait-attracted mature female tiger sharks from Fuvahmulah Island, Maldives	2
Predation risk in two Patagonian Liolaemus lizards: Similar escape behaviour in different environmental contexts	2
Sheep's coping style can be identified by unsupervised machine learning from unlabeled data	2
Resource limitations: A taxonomy	2
Behavioral evidence that repetitive responses in a free-movement pattern Y-maze are associated with ageing-related deficit in working memory	2
Uncertainty in foraging success and its consequences on fitness	2
Are domestic chickens born with predator recognition? Validation of a sound playback experiment	2
Prosociality and reciprocity according to parental status, communication, and personality in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria)	2
Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration	2
Social group during housing and testing modulates the effect of ethanol on zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior	2
The structure of courtship behavior in Drosophila males: Boundaries of plasticity	2
Sleepiness profiles in mice submitted to acute and chronic sleep deprivation	2
Modulation of dear enemy effects by male dusky warblers (Phylloscopus fuscatus) at different reproductive stages	2
Locomotor play behavior evolves by random genetic drift but not as a correlated response to selective breeding for high voluntary wheel-running behavior	2
Noise-induced vocal shifts in the Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus) vocal distribution in two different habitats	2
Learning and laterality in wild-caught Namaqua rock mice (Micaelamys namaquensis)	2
The role of line-of-sight in operant experiments using food reinforcers in guinea pigs	2
The importance of color and body size for reproductive decision making by males and females of the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man, 1879) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)	2
The emergence and early development of socio-sexual behavior in beluga calves (Delphinapterus leucas)	2
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Rats can spontaneously discriminate different rhythms: An investigation using an automated habituation-dishabituation paradigm	2
Tactile cues are important to environmental novelty during repeated open field tests	2
Decrease in the rewarding value of spatial novelty due to the contamination of the stimulus field with light – Evidence from a free exploration test involving rats	2
Evaluation of the capability of oil specific discrimination in detection dogs	2
Individual and group behavioral responses to nutritional state and context in a social fish	2
Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals	2
Interspecific differences in sociability, social novelty preference, anxiety- and depression-like behaviors between Brandt's voles and C57BL/6J mice	2
Increased vigilance to neighbor duets broadcast from unexpected territorial boundaries in rufous horneros	2
Why do Cattle Egrets forage with cattle? An analysis from an anti-predation perspective	2
Influence of RFID tags on Melipona quadrifasciata behavior: Effects on locomotion and food choice	2
Social attributes shape antipredator behavior strategies in the ruddy ground-dove	2
Response timing of budgerigars in a turn-taking task under operant conditioning	2
Runway extinction in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): Instrumental or Pavlovian?	2
Female preference counteracts negative frequency dependent selection for a stable polymorphism in a livebearing fish	2
Kea (Nestor notabilis) and the ephemeral reward task: Success and hurdles explored	2
Bonding against the odds: Male prairie vole response to the “widow effect” among females	2
Ambient light spectrum affects larval Mexican jumping bean moth (Cydia saltitans) behavior despite light obstruction from host seed	2
When a glimpse is enough: Partial mimicry of jumping spiders by insects	2
Captive Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) show facial indicators of positive affect when reunited with their caregiver	2
Qualitative variations in delay discounting: A brief review and future directions	2
Relational abilities index: A experimental study of the procedure at different trial durations	2
Assessing effects of predator density and diversity on neophobia in Trinidadian guppies	1
Nuanced effects of relative body size on social motivation in a highly gregarious catfish	1
Comparison of progressive hold and progressive response schedules of reinforcement	1
Does a high social status confer greater levels of trust from groupmates? An experimental study of leadership in domestic horses	1
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Automatic classification of dog barking using deep learning	1
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Reduction in locomotor activity and freezing time: A dual measure for more accurate fear response in rats	1
At-risk drinking, operant demand, and cross-commodity discounting as predictors of drunk driving in underage college women	1
Investigation of lateralization of socio-sexual behavior in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)	1
Size, skull shape and age influence the temperament of domestic dogs	1
COVID-19-related financial scarcity is associated with greater delay discounting but not probability discounting	1
Prospective control by reinforcers in human choice: Misallocation and bias, but not time orientation, influences reinforcer control	1